This well-designed, kid-friendly space displays details of karst phenomena in an engaging manner, and tracks cave exploration. Most interesting is all the memorabilia and vintage posters detailing the 200-year history of tourism to Postojna Cave (like the fact that the cave got electric lighting in 1883, a decade before Ljubljana).
Expo Postojna Cave Karst
Southwestern Slovenia
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